Known for Acting
Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 — February 11, 1976) was an American actor. He was best known for his performances in On the Waterfront (1954), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, 12 Angry Men (1957), and The Exorcist (1973). He also played the role of Willy Loman in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. On television, Cobb costarred in the first four seasons of the popular, long-running western series The Virginian. He typically played arrogant, intimidating, and abrasive characters, but often had roles as respectable figures such as judges. Born Leo Jacob in New York City, he grew up in The Bronx, before studying at New York University and making his film debut in The Vanishing Shadow (1934). Cobb performed in numerous theater productions and companies, including Group Theatre (New York) before serving in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force during World War II. Following the war, Cobb returned to film, television and theater before being accused of being a Communist in 1951 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee by Larry Parks, himself a former Communist Party member. Cobb was called to testify before HUAC but refused to do so for two years until, with his career threatened by the blacklist, he relented in 1953 and gave testimony in which he named 20 people as former members of the Communist Party USA. Following the hearing he resumed his career and worked with Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg, two other HUAC "friendly witnesses", on the 1954 film On the Waterfront, which is widely seen as an allegory and apologia for testifying. His 1968 performance as King Lear achieved the longest run (72 performances) for the play in Broadway history. One of his final film roles was that of police detective Lt. Kinderman in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist. Cobb died of a heart attack in February 1976 in Woodland Hills, California, and was buried in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. He was survived by his second wife, Mary Hirsch, and daughter, also an accomplished actress, Julie Cobb.
Born
December 8, 1911
Died
February 11, 1976 (age 64)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
85 films, 20 shows


Arthur Miller on Home Ground
1979 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Filmmaker Harry Rasky presents an intimate portrait of Arthur Miller, exploring the playwright’s life, influences, and literary achievements. Through extended interviews, archival materials, and clips from productions of his plays and screenplays, Miller reflects on the themes behind works such as The Crucible and The Misfits, his resistance to McCarthy-era political pressure, and the personal experiences—including his marriage to Marilyn Monroe—that shaped one of the most influential voices in modern American drama.


The Meanest Men in the West
1978 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of two episodes of the hit 1960's TV series, "The Virginian." In one installment, a wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped by a nasty gunslinger. But the crime is only just a means for the ruffian to draw the tough title character into a blood- thirsty revenge scheme. In the second, a drifter burglarizes the Shiloh ranch. Then an unhinged girl relies on the man to aid in her flight from home.


Cross Shot
1976 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.


Nick the Sting
1976 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his friend's death. He succeeds in getting a hundred thousand swiss francs and uses them to carry out the second part of his plan.


Mark Shoots First
1975 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".


That Lucky Touch
1975 · 1h 29m
country: United Kingdom
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting.


Blood, Sweat and Fear
1975 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Police believe that a respectable industrialist is actually the head of drug smuggling ring in Milan.


The Balloon Vendor
1974 · 1h 29m
country: Italy
A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.


The Great Ice Rip-Off
1974 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A retired cop goes up against a slick jewel thief and his gang, who have pulled a diamond heist and are trying to smuggle the diamonds cross-country.


Trapped Beneath the Sea
1974 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Based on an incident that occurred off the coast of Florida in 1973, this film tells the story of four men who find themselves trapped in a mini-submarine in the ocean depths.


Dr. Max
1974 · 1h 14m
country: Unknown
A small-town doctor neglects his family to look after his patients.


The Exorcist
1973 · 2h 2m
country: United States
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.


The Great Kidnapping
1973 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..


Double Indemnity
1973 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.


The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
1973 · 2h 3m
country: United States
On the run from her violent husband, a woman witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.


The Bull of the West
1972 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "Nobility of Kings" (10 Nov. 1965).


Heat of Anger
1972 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's daughter.


Lawman
1971 · 1h 39m
country: United States
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.


Macho Callahan
1971 · 1h 39m
country: Mexico
A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on desertion charges. He eventually breaks out of the prison camp, reunites with his old partner and sets out to kill the man who was responsible for his being in the camp in the first place. However, after accidentally killing a Confederate officer, he finds himself pursued by a gang of vicious bounty hunters intent on collecting the reward put up by the dead officer's widow.


The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1970 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's colleagues are seeking to avoid publicity.


Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man
1970 · 1h
country: United States
A CBS television special, renowned for its legendary "Yma, Ava....Yma, Uta... Yma, Oona" sequence. Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man (1970) won Anne Bancroft her only Emmy for her portrayal of 14 different woman in 14 musical and comedy sketches. Bancroft's husband Mel Brooks contributed to the script and also appears onscreen.


Mackenna's Gold
1969 · 2h 8m
country: United States
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.


Coogan's Bluff
1968 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.


The Day of the Owl
1968 · 1h 48m
country: France
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.


They Came to Rob Las Vegas
1968 · 2h 4m
country: France
After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang collide, causing undesirable consequences.


In Like Flint
1967 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minutes while golfing with the President. Flint finds that the President has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own.


Death of a Salesman
1966 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.


Our Man Flint
1966 · 1h 48m
country: United States
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.


The Final Hour
1965 · 2h 30m
country: United States
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together.


The Brazen Bell
1964
country: Unknown


Come Blow Your Horn
1963 · 1h 52m
country: United States
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.


The Devil's Children
1962 · 1h 13m
country: Unknown
An old farmer, who has raised his daughter and son with the utmost severity, is soon faced with a mess in the family: the daughter sets fire to a barn, is shot while trying to escape, the son becomes an avenging murderer and almost sends an innocent. man to jail...


How the West Was Won
1962 · 2h 44m
country: United States
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.


The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1962 · 2h 33m
country: United States
In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.


Exodus
1960 · 3h 28m
country: United States
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
I, Don Quixote
I, Don Quixote
1959 · 1h 28m
country: Unknown
The original TV play which evolved into the hit musical, "Man of La Mancha".


But Not for Me
1959 · 1h 51m
country: United States
Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown, she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald to rewrite his latest show as a May-December romance starring Brown herself. Ward struggles to make a comeback as his ex-wife, Kathryn, plots to end his new relationship.


Green Mansions
1959 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.


The Trap
1959 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes...


Party Girl
1958 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.


Man of the West
1958 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.


The Brothers Karamazov
1958 · 2h 25m
country: United States
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.


The Three Faces of Eve
1957 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
Panic Button
Panic Button
1957 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
The investigation into a plane crash concludes that it was caused by pilot error. At the inquiry, the co-pilot seeks to place the blame on the captain who died in the crash.


The Garment Jungle
1957 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.


12 Angry Men
1957 · 1h 37m
country: United States
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.


Miami Exposé
1956 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.


The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956 · 2h 33m
country: United States
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate son he's never seen. Pressed by his unhappy wife to get a higher-paying job, Rath goes to work as a public relations man for television network president Ralph Hopkins. Drawn into poisonous office politics, Tom finds he must choose his career or his family.


The Left Hand of God
1955 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.


The Road to Denver
1955 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.


The Racers
1955 · 1h 28m
country: United States
An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.


Day of Triumph
1954 · 1h 50m
country: Unknown
A film about the last days of Jesus Christ.


On the Waterfront
1954 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.


Gorilla at Large
1954 · 1h 23m
country: United States
At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.


Yankee Pasha
1954 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Tale of an adventurer trying to rescue a damsel kidnapped by pirates.


The Tall Texan
1953 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Groups of desperate travelers journey together throughout the Southwest and soon find trouble when they all get gold fever. The action and drama are heightened when they discover gold…on an Indian burial ground!


The Fighter
1952 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A boxer, in Mexico, sets out to avenge the murder of his family by using the money from his winnings to purchase weapons.


The Family Secret
1951 · 1h 25m
country: United States
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.


Sirocco
1951 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.


The Man Who Cheated Himself
1950 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.


Thieves' Highway
1949 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.


The Phantom Creeps
1949 · 1h 18m
country: United States
The truncated feature version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.


The Dark Past
1948 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.


The Luck of the Irish
1948 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.


The Miracle of the Bells
1948 · 2h
country: United States
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.


Call Northside 777
1948 · 1h 51m
country: United States
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal to look into the case. For some time, McNeal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.


Captain from Castile
1947 · 2h 20m
country: United States
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...


Boomerang!
1947 · 1h 28m
country: United States
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.


Johnny O'Clock
1947 · 1h 35m
country: United States
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.


Anna and the King of Siam
1946 · 2h 8m
country: United States
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.


Winged Victory
1944 · 2h 10m
country: United States
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
Flight Characteristics of the P-51 Airplane
1944 · 30m
country: United States
U.S. Army Air Force pilot Bob Chilton and North American Aircraft designer Arthur Deeds show an Air Force colonel and major the new P-51B aircraft, explaining the changes in this new model and taking the plane through its paces with full description of its flight characteristics.


The Song of Bernadette
1943 · 2h 36m
country: United States
In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Massabielle grotto - the townspeople assume this lady to be the Virgin Mary. Pompous government officials think the girl is insane, doing their best to suppress her and her followers, while the church wants nothing to do with the matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the town, ultimately transforming their lives.


Buckskin Frontier
1943 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.


Tonight We Raid Calais
1943 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mission.


The Moon Is Down
1943 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.


Paris Calling
1941 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...


Men of Boys Town
1941 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.


This Thing Called Love
1940 · 1h 38m
country: Unknown
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.


Golden Boy
1939 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.


The Phantom Creeps
1939 · 4h 25m
country: United States
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.


Danger on the Air
1938 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.


Rustlers' Valley
1937 · 1h 1m
country: United States
Hoppy clears Lucky on a charge of bank robbery and foils the plot of a crooked lawyer to rustle a herd of pedigree cattle and take over the valley.


North of the Rio Grande
1937 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.


The Vanishing Shadow
1934 · 4h 2m
country: United States
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'